West would consider Veep slot

Sarah Palin has said her “rogue” pick for vice president would be Rep. Allen West — and on Friday the Florida Republican said if he does get that call, “if it’s the right fit” he would join the ticket.

But West told CNN he doubts he would be asked to serve as the vice presidential nominee.

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“Yeah, well, right now, you know, the focus is, of course, being a good congressional representative,” West said. “But if someone were to make that call to me, which I really doubt is ever going to happen, you would have to make sure that it is something that God would ordain for you, and you’d have to talk to your wife, my wife and my two daughters about. But we have always stepped up to the plate to serve our country. And if it’s the right fit, then I will do so.”

“But as I said, I really, really much so doubt that that would ever happen,” he told CNN’s Kyra Phillips.

West added that he doesn’t personally know Romney and would “have to sit down and discuss things” if he were asked to join the ticket.

“Well, you know, I’ve never been out on a dinner date with him if that’s what you’re asking me,” West said. “So I don’t know if I would like him. But I think that we’d have to sit down and discuss things. And look, I think that Gov. Romney and I definitely have a different vision for this country, a vision that gets us away from debt, despair and the horrible situations you see with our economic security, our energy security and our national security. So I think that we will be able to come together as a team and be able to develop the right type of platform to turn this ship of state around for the United States of America.”

On Tuesday, Palin said on Fox News that “top of my list” is West, adding that the presidential nominee shouldn’t “think they have to go with somebody necessarily safe” for their vice presidential pick.

“They’re going to get clobbered. The media will make things up about them and their record and their reputations and their families,” Palin told Sean Hannity on Tuesday. “So no matter who it is, so they might as well get someone who is passionate and strong, as I say, like about Allen West, understands the Constitution and wants to put government back on the side of the people.”